Re: 2.4.9-ac1/2/3 allows multiple mounts of NFS filesystem on same mountpoint

[Thiago Vinhas de Moraes]

Em Qui, 30 de Ago de 2001 16:12, Trond Myklebust escreveu:
> >>>>> " " == Kevin P Fleming <[e-mail]> writes:
>      > Accidentally <G> I mounted a filesystem from my server onto my
>      > workstation twice. Mount gave me no error....
>
> That's right. The 2.4 VFS removed the global restriction on the number
> of mounts on a single mountpoint. So?
>
> If people expect this to be an error, then the correct thing is for
> the VFS restriction to be reinstated. I see no reason why it should be
> the responsibility of the filesystem to check for this sort of
> thing. A mountpoint is after all the one place where the VFS is
> actually *designed* to override the filesystem.

I think it should be reinstated. We must have in mind, that currently, the 
most part of end-users are newbies, and if we want Linux to be a true Desktop 
Enviroment, we must allow people that do not want to understand it, to run it.

Just IMHO.

Regards,
Thiago Vinhas